Today’s Totally Random
Lines
And was his highness in his infancy
Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?
Duke of Gloster
King Henry the Sixth
Part II Act I, Scene i, Line 93
Context!
Context!
Okay, here you go: the
young King Henry sent Suffolk to France to bring home a bride for the king. In
doing so Suffolk has agreed to give back to France the duchy of Anjou and the County
of Maine (two big chunks of France that King Henry’s father, Henry the Fifth,
won in the wars with France). Now Suffolk is presenting the
bride to King Henry with the news of this deal with the French. Young King
Henry is happy with his bride and the deal, and he leaves the scene with his
bride and Suffolk. Once he’s gone, everyone else is ranting about what a rotten
deal this is to have given land back to the French. The Duke of Gloster (father
to Richard III and uncle to King Henry) is the first to rant, and Today’s Lines
are in the middle of that rant.
What’s that? You want the whole rant? Well, it’s quite long…
I’d bail right now, if I were you. I'm stuck here, but you're not. There’s no telling if he’s
going to follow through with that threat, but I can tell you that it’s a long
rant, about thirty lines long.
Go ahead, skedaddle.
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